I really liked the post “ Rapid deployments with IBM
SmartCloud Provisioning ” that explains
how simple and fast it is to deploy instances using SmartCloud Provisioning. But if is also important to have a flexible way for passing parameters during
the...

The objective of the Service Management Unite (SMU) Quickstart program is to assist the early adopters to begin using Service Management Unite. Advantages to you: Assistance with questions with SMU Assistance with deployment of SW pre-reqs...

Application High Availability in a Heterogeneous Environment Many solutions today have services and applications that execute on different hardware and software. This makes it difficult to control and automate each component to improve availability, reduce...

Recently got a note from Christopher Walker of the OMEGAMON for CICS on z/OS development team that our colleagues on the CICS Tools team in Hursley recently celebrated a birthday. As an aside, here is something that I was not aware of, the CL/CONFERENCE and...

One part of my "day job" is to help our products and solutions manage conflicting requirements. I've been involved in a number of standards efforts over the past 5 years, so this is not new territory in a sense. Since it's really easy for people to...

I wanted to let you know about a free webcast coming up later this week that will be of interest to anyone faced with managing increasing complexity in your networks. Titled "Solving Application and Network Issues with OMEGAMON and NetView" and...

One of the challenges all digerati have to contend with is making systems constructed in isolation work together. This is followed about 5 seconds later by keeping them in that state. The industry's historical success in doing so is "mixed" at...

Hi, all, on April 9th the new product IBM Automation Control for z/OS was announced. This product has enhanced the Tivoli System Automation family with a product focused on helping smaller zEnterprise customers. The IBM Automation Control for z/OS (IACz)...

IBM Security zSecure 1.13 has become generally available today (11/11/11). Notable features include: * automatically detecting active CICS and IMS regions and reporting on those, with a focus on reporting on transactions and programs * ability to...

IBM Security zSecure 1.13.1 has become generally available on 10/26/2012. Notable features include: * automatically detecting active DB2 regions and reporting on those, with a focus on tables, views, plans, and packages, analyzing both RACF...

IBM Security zSecure 2.1 has become generally available on 09/06/2013. You can read the US announcement letter here . Notable features include: * a user interface to ease rule-based compliance reporting against standards such as DISA-STIG (the...

IBM Security zSecure 2.1 was co-announced with z/OS V2R1 on July 23, 2013 and became generally available on September 6, 2013. On October 1, 2013 IBM has announced a number of new product releases in the information management area with a...

On April 7, 2014 IBM CICS Transaction Server for z/OS V5.2 has been announced with a planned availability date of June 13, 2014. This release includes support for stronger cryptographic ciphers per Special Publication 800-131A...

New Information Management releases DB2 11 f or z /O S and IMS 13 have become available on October 25, 2013. Related updates to IBM Secu rity zSe cure 2. 1 providing currency support for these releases have become available on...

IBM Security zSecure suite 2.2.1 was announced on October 25, 2016 with a planned availability date of December 9, 2016. You can read the US announcement letter here . This release provides live SMF event streaming to IBM QRadar SIEM, enhanced...

A set of user interface productivity enhancements to zSecure 2.2.0 has been made available in a Service Stream Enhancement (SSE) on July 30, 2016. Background IBM Security zSecure suite can help you protect your enterprise, detect threats, comply with...

IBM Security zSecure suite 2.3.0 was co-announced with IBM Z pervasive encryption capabilities on July 17, 2017 with a planned availability date of August 11, 2017. You can read the US announcement letter here . This release...

IBM Security zSecure suite 2.1.1 was announced on July 15, 2014, including a new product IBM Security zSecure Adapters for QRadar SIEM (5655-AD8), with a planned availability date of September 5, 2014. You can read...

A Service Stream Enhancement (SSE) has been made available for the Access Monitor component of zSecure Admin 2.2.1 on March 30, 2017 to enable analytics processing. Insight Pack 3 for IBM Operations Analytics for z Systems&nb...

Integration between IBM Security zSecure Alert and QRadar SIEM 7 has become generally available on December 19, 2012. This integration allows forwarding real-time alerts from zSecure Alert to QRadar SIEM through the syslog protocol. zSecure Alert zSecure...

On July 4, 2017 a new service stream enhancement (SSE) to zSecure Audit 2.2.1 has become generally available, adding additional compliance checks for the Security Technical Implementation Guide (STIG) for z/OS from the US Defense Information Systems Agency...

Integration between IBM Security zSecure Audit 2.1 and IBM InfoSphere Guardium 9.1 is set to be available on October 25, 2013. zSecure Audit analyzes the protection of DB2 objects by RACF and internal security and makes...

Integration between IBM Security zSecure Audit 1.13.0 and QRadar SIEM 7.0 has become generally available on July 31, 2012. This integration allows sending z/OS, RACF, ACF2, Top Secret, DB2, and CICS events from the System Management Facilities...

z/OS V2R2 was announced on July 28, 2015 with a planned availability date of September 30, 2015. Toleration fixes have been made available for zSecure 1.13.0, 1.13.1, 2.1.0, and 2.1.1. Background The zSecure for z/OS release numbers follow those of...

z/VM V6R4 was announced on October 25, 2016 with a planned availability date of November 11, 2016. Toleration fixes have been made available beforehand for zSecure Manager for RACF z/VM 1.11.1 and 1.11.2 and for zSecure for z/OS 2.1.0, 2.1.1, and 2.2.0. ...

IBM Security zSecure Manager for RACF z/VM 1.11.1 has become generally available on June 15, 2012. Notable features include: * coverage of minidisks and real devices in dedicated new report types VM_MDISK and VM_DEV, available from menu options RE.V.M...

IBM Security zSecure Manager for RACF z/VM 1.11.1 originally shipped before z/VM V6R3 was available. If you are planning to upgrade your z/VM release level to z/VM V6R3, take note of the following available maintenance: * PTF...

In November 2014, RACF and zSecure provided security enhancements to passwords for z/OS . Equivalent support has now been provided for z/VM V6R3. Background Password security is a function as much of user education as of...

The announcement letter for IBM Security zSecure suite 2.2.0 issued on October 1, 2015 contained a Statement of Direction about providing 64-bit addressing support on a future date. This support has become available on June 25, 2016 through a...

On November 13, 2014 password security enhancements in RACF were made available for z/OS V1R12, V1R13, and V2R1. A service stream enhancement to zSecure 1.12, 1.13, 1.13.1, 2.1, and 2.1.1 was made available at the same time. Among other improvements, these...

IBM CIC S Tr a nsa c tio n Se r ver for z/O S V5 . 4 has become generally available on June 16, 2017. Toleration fixes for zSecure 2.1.0, 2.1.1, 2.2.0, and 2.2.1 have been made available on June 23, 2017. A new field is...

A Service Stream Enhancement (SSE) for IBM Security zSecure 2.2.1 has been made available on April 19, 2017 to provide support for new DB2 12 features. These include DB2 region settings, new SMF log record event subtypes, and a new...

A performance improvement was recently made available to speed up processing for CARLa queries using z/OS UNIX file data. If you are using zSecure 2.1.0 or 2.1.1 it is recommended you look at the service provided through APAR OA46606 . If you work with...

Should we or shouldn't we? The typical question of the IT Manager when her/his datacenter automation software releases a new fixpack. This question stems from prior nightmares attempting to deploy fixes that were half-baked, poorly documented and delivered in...

Hello, again, For those of you in the US, I hope you enjoyed your Memorial Day weekend. If you're anywhere in the southern half of the US, you know it's HOT -- mid-to-upper 90's (mid-upper 30's C) and more. Try to stay out of the heat. NetView for z/OS V6.1...

As a complement to the recent launch of Service Management Connect , a new YouTube channel has been created to support the site. This new channel will be the home for all technical videos related to Integrated Service Management and the various solutions and...

Danny Sabbah, our General Manager, spent several minutes at the end of his Pulse 2011 Day 1 General Session time talking about "radical simplification" of Tivoli products, and how this would be enabled by open standards and communities that IBM is...

Hello All, We went live with our "System Z Presence on Service Management Connect" yesterday 5/24/2011. This is a great venue for our Tivoli System Z customers to collaborate with Tivoli Development. We feature a long list of SMEs from the...

The Olympics always bring a strong sense of competition as countries vie for top honors, fueled with nationalism and pure athletic pride on the line. In every sport there is almost always one competitor out in front, willing to wear a target on her/his back,...

Hello, in support of Tivoli NetView for z/OS 6.1 System Automation for z/OS shipped toleration support which is needed to run with NetView 6.1. The APAR number is OA35900. Toleration support is available for SA z/OS 3.2 and SA z/OS 3.3 customers.

Coming soon to a city near you ... the 2011 North America System Availability Roadshow. Yes, beginning next week, we take System Availability on the road with stops in the Detroit area (Southfield) on Tuesday, October 4, and Chicago on Thursday, October 6....